| Show a i a r ROCKEFELLERS CRUSADE IN CHINA OHINA I f r 1 John D Rockefeller is planning the reawakening of China Ohina t With ho is to establish an educational center near 4 Shanghai There will be no religion taught but the theory of mod I c ern commercialism and industrialism will be transmitted to the tho thoI I Chinese There is some somo complaint from religious bodies because 1 t I Rockefeller has bas failed to make basis of I I this college The Tho criticism is not well founded The only thing to toi i open China is industrialism and once the Celestial Empire is brought closely in contact with the other nations of the world wort the opportunity will be presented for Christianity to prove superior to toS S Confucianism or Buddhism With interior China closed commercially to the outside world and dead to modern progress and liberality the missionary work of the tho Christian people is comparatively without impress and will thus continue until China awakens I On the at 1000 miles inland there is isa a great steel plant with nIl all the latest machinery and blast furnaces of the best equipped iron works in the world From iron ore of I Chinas own production and coal from the mines further farther up the I mighty river this plant employing Chinese is producing teel rails equal to the best This is the first great sign of China emerging from the dark post past When that country of OO people once becomes mod modernized the n missionaries of Christianity will be face to face with a mighty of proving the right of their belief to supplant the superstitions which have hae helped to make the Chinese for cen centuries centuries a benighted people |
